On 28 June 2015 at 00:06, Richard Aiken <raikenclw@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Greg Chalik <mrg3105@gmail.com> wrote:

On 27 June 2015 at 17:47, Richard Aiken <raikenclw@gmail.com> wrote:
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 11:44 PM, <shadow@shadowgard.com> wrote:
Your usage was apparently "has connections for"

Usage I am (and apparently other folks on tne list are) used to is
"has the gear already installed & working"

Even "has connections for" means - in COMMON usage - that the item has the PHYSICAL parts required to hook up the relevant bits of subsidiary tech already installed. In this sense, a laptop or a smart phone is "wired for" HDMI connection to other devices by having at least one HDMI port actually installed into it at the factory. There used to exist (before such models were made obsolete through lack of same) such devices that came from the factory without such "wired for" connections.

All electical devices come from the factory wired for electricity. They just need a wall socket.

Apparently the use of hyperbole as a discussion tactic is something you find comforting.

Richard, YOU chose this path of 'discussion', so you call it whatever you want. I call it the BLINDINGLY OBVIOUS

I don't use 'discussion tactics'. If I did, this 'discussion' would be over a week ago.

I enter discussions TO LEARN, not to win

ASSUMING this is so in the rest of your communications, one can readily see why the USMC might take your "advice" with a metric ton of sodium.

Unlike you, I am not prone to assuming anything.

The members of the USMC I communicated with were liers.

The mind does not work on electricty, either AC or DC.

I call [male cattle excrement] on that: http://jonlieffmd.com/blog/brain-electricity-and-the-mind

LOL grasping at straws?

Did you even read this article? I am only 'wrong' if YOU refer to the axons in neural networks as 'wires'.

It is beyond me to predict what the actual technology will look like, but it will certainly be nano-scale perhaps using artificial molecular strands introduced through genetic engineering

Hardly 'wires', is it?

Given the above, the assumption (as I and other have stated) is that a human "wired from birth" for control of external electronics will have the relevant data ports installed into their nervous systems as physical cyberwear.

A million people making the same assumption, is still an assumption.

So?

"Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something. Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over again too. Who decides?" Robert A. Heinlein

In that case Democracy is a fallacy.

In actual fact Democracy was one of FOUR THEORETICAL FORMS OF GOVERNMENT in Ancient Greece, these being Monarchy, Oligarchy, Tyranny and Democracy. In Ancient Athens Monarchy was followed by Democracy, then a few Oligarchic revolutions, and was finally replaced by Tyranny of the Macedonians, the most noted of which was Alexander whom the Greeks call Great.

By the time Robert A. Heinlein passed away the United States had already transited from Republican Democracy to Oligarchy

No, Autocracy "is a system of government in which a supreme power is concentrated in the hands of one person, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control" The issue of wisdom is a non-issue.

Since most people [including probably 99+% of this list] in modern Western culture would rather live under a democracy than an autocracy, I'm okay with the concept that a million people agreeing that an author writing for general consumption is using the ASSUMED meaning of his words, unless he SPECIFICALLY states otherwise.

Modern Western Culture?! You call this "stating specific meaning"?! Neither 'modern', Western', or 'cultural' are at all agreed on even if compared to your own country's East Coast, Mid-West, the South, or West Coast 'modern Western cultures' LOL

And since you have by now seen that YouTube video, you may note the reference to the 99% that also served as a rallying cry for the Occupy Movement who include everyone on this and every other list, because people in the 1% are not on any list that anyone on TML list is likely to be on.

And for the record, Democracy is not mentioned anywhere in the US Constitution. People fought for their lives to continue living under a Monarchy also. It is the preferred form of government by God :-) (Oh My God! :-0)

It would have been better if you asked if you were unsure what exactly I meant than assume

More bovine excrement.

And this is supposed to be an insult? You have clearly not been on an organic farm lately. Shit is a beautiful resource, and without all the crap in the World, we would probably starve.

If I could, I would spend every day of my life shoveling some bullshit in a far better environment than the one I'm in now. I love the smell of bullshit in the morning. :-p (Note: statistically, most 'bullshit' is produced by cows)

So you apparently believe that EVERY response to EVERY post on this list (or any other written communication) should be prefaced with:

"Assuming the author to whom I am replying is using the COMMON DEFINITION of the words he used, I am replying thusly."

I don't believe anything.

I think reading cognition works by identifying word meanings within their contexts.

If you DON'T believe this statement should be used by EVERY respondent, then how do you propose that someone should go about picking which missive should use the ASSUMED values and which should require such special questioning?

I propose that if the reader is not sure what the writer wrote, he or she should just ASK the writer. Communication is not a 'one way street'.

My. God.

'He' is also my God, though I'm not sure we refer to the same entity.

Here I am, wasting my time, actually trying to reason with an internet troll.

Frankly I see very little reason in your posts. Just being defensive.

Calling someone a troll is just an ad hominen unless you can show my "deliberate intent of provoking readers into an emotional response"

But I did not pick at your words to send this discussion WAY OFF TOPIC.

I did not question your beliefs, not call your statements 'bovine excrement'.

Moreover, if trolling was my behaviour pattern, I would not be posting now after YEARS of TML membership, while you post all the time.

"Never insult anyone by accident." Robert A. Heinlein

Greg

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Richard Aiken

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